We investigate what
goes on in space using instruments we build
ourselves and fly on spacecraft, ground based instruments, computer
simulations and plasma theory. Here are some samples of our research:

Aug 2012:
Exploring the properties of thin sheets in space, we have for the first time been able
to verify the properties of so called lower hybrid drift waves in space around Earth,
using our instruments on the multi-spacecraft Cluster mission.
The results were published in Physical Review
Letters: see also our press release.

Jan 2012: Cold plasma previously hidden in the magnetosphere is revealed by our instruments on
the Cluster satellites in a study we publish in Geophysical Research Letters,
also featured in National Geographic Daily News and an AGU news release.

Jul 2011: Plasma jets are common in the universe, and now we know the details of what happens
when they hit an obstacle, using our instruments on the Cluster satellites
in the Earth's magnetic tail.
ESA
highlights the study, published in Physical Review Letters.

Oct 2010: Small pulse-like waves
known as electron holes dwell at the heart of a
magnetically explosion in space, known as reconnection, we show from
our Cluster data in study in
Physical Review
Letters. See also our press release.

Oct 2010: We contribute to a study in Science showing th
at pulsating aurora is caused by waves in space known as chorus emissions. See also the
National Geographic news feature.

March 2007: We found that magnetic field reconnection occurs in
turbulent plasmas, too. Published in Nature Physics,
presented in an ESA news
feature.

Nov 2006: We reveal the inner structure of a region of space
close to a magnetic reconnection site. Published in Physical Review
Letters.

Aug 2005: We discovered Alfvén vortices, a kind of
whirlpools in space, near the boundary of the Earth's magnetosphere.
Published in Nature, presented in
our press
release and in an ESA news feature.

May 2005: On arrival at Saturn, our Langmuir probe on Cassini
immediately detected cold plasma around Titan and plasma interaction
with ring dust. Published in Science and Geophysical Research
Letters.

Cassini --
launched by NASA in 1997,
exploring the environment of Saturn since June 2004, with our Langmuir
probe onboard.

Upcoming:

BepiColombo -- an ESA-JAXA (Europe-Japan) mission to Mercury, where we are
responsible for the electronics and probe surfaces
for the MEFISTO sensors of the PWI instrument on the magnetospheric orbiter. Launch 2016, orbit insertion
at Mercury 2024. More
on Bepi and MEFISTO at KTH.

Solar Orbiter -- ESAs mission to investigate the Sun at close distance, for launch in 2017. We are building parts
of the RPW instrument to study the solar wind close to its source.

JUICE -- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission. Together with a large team of European, Japanese and American laboratories, we will provide instrumentation for investigating waves, fields and plasmas in the Jovian system. Launch 2022, arrival at Jupiter in 2030.